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by dfc 11y ago
An allusion to another one result wonder thinkpad phrase;) As far as the quality of old thinkpads[1] go you are preaching to the choir. My thinkpad fetish is actually why I googled your "globally unique dime phrase." [1] Don'
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by dfc 11y ago
Congratulations, according to google you are the first person in the world to use that phrase to refer to thinkpads: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22dime+thinkpads%22&ie=utf-...
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by dfc 11y ago
Nice: > Found my way upstairs and read hackernews > whining about comic sans and CVS. Track 2, A Year in the Life. http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#58d
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by dfc 11y ago
I sincerely regret that my message was rude, that was not my intent.
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by dfc 11y ago
No I do not think "anyone can just [identify these animals from aerial photographs]." I think the people most likely to correctly identify the animals in aerial photos were those with the most experience identifying the animals on
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by dfc 11y ago
Fine, strike my first sentence and replace it with: "Why is this so difficult to believe (AKA incredible)?"
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by dfc 11y ago
Why is this so surprising? I will be honest, my reaction after reading the article was "Newsflash, the best data analysts are those individuals with the greatest subject matter expertise." They have an incredible amount of knowled
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by dfc 11y ago
Are there reasons other than speed/resource-usage for not using 15-18? Or put another way do you prefer group #14 above all others or is #14 the lowest level of security you are comfortable with?
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by dfc 11y ago
It is kind of terrifying seeing him operate so many machines with his tie dangling around his neck. He obviously knows his way a round a shop better than I do but I always thought neckties were no-nos in the shop.
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by dfc 11y ago
> Consider how many relatively successful life-forms cannot exist without a very specific other species of life. Let's ignore how "many relatively successful [extant] life-forms" versus the ones that had "evolutionary
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by dfc 11y ago
> its a filter on people who can't handle math or can't handle complicated written procedures. Do you think that the USNA admissions process and or the Academy's graduation requirements do not provide an equivalent filter?
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by dfc 11y ago
The kilogram is still the only base unit that contains an SI prefix in the base unit's name.
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by dfc 11y ago
Plain text version: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dfc/087c012d163135f5eb3e/...
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by dfc 11y ago
What does "procured enough drama" mean?
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by dfc 11y ago
Good point but...? I don't understand the point of your comment. If the editors at the large publication chose the title does that assuage some of GP's concern that people will "start to confuse real paranoia with informed c
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by dfc 11y ago
I do not understand the new dupe detection system. The same user posted the same link 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368978
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by dfc 11y ago
> The idea is treat it like a taxonomic model.. You are aware of Mitre's Common Weakness Enumeration, right? https://cwe.mitre.org/
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by dfc 11y ago
> Now this article makes sense This is all TC does, you can call it pimping or fluffing. Before this article did you think TC was an investigative journalism powerhouse? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by dfc 11y ago
> And IPv6 is designed to be more easily renumberable Can you point me to some information about this? I apologize if this is an easy question I am interested in ipv6 but only know enough to be confused more often than not.
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by dfc 11y ago
Wow, I was expecting a little more economics in a post titled "the strange economics of OSS." It is too bad the post makes such grand claims without any modicum of effort to back them up with data; these are very interesting resea
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by dfc 11y ago
Or Bram Cohen's IPLayer: 49C2E772BFDB18686FC3384B363F4A544F549150
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by dfc 11y ago
If anyone is interested in pictures Vice did a nice article on Salton City: http://www.vice.com/read/i-went-to-californias-post-apocalyp...
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by dfc 11y ago
I enjoy reading your comments here at HN. Would you care to provide a link to your blog? I understand if you would like to keep the personas disconnected.
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by dfc 11y ago
What/Who is "@Ph.T." referring to in the linked discussion?
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The Art of Influence(bbc.co.uk)
41 points by dfc 11y ago|14 comments
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by dfc 11y ago
If you start a comment out with "not strictly [related to linked article]" and hijack the discussion by plugging a website it seems like the decent thing to do is mention that you are the developer behind said website. I think thi
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by dfc 11y ago
I apologize if this is obvious but I do not understand why you wish httpie had an output to curl feature? Am I missing some sarcastic twist?
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by dfc 11y ago
This would be community moderation. I think you lose the right to whine about "unwanted control" when you accepted the terms and conditions in order to make use of a commercial enterprise's for profit software store, private
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by dfc 11y ago
Did you read the article? "There are limitations this system. Potvin says certain highly sensitive code—stuff akin to the Google’s PageRank search algorithm—resides in separate repositories only available to specific employees. "
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by dfc 11y ago
Your comment is killing the layout of this page. Can you please fix the formatting of your message? HN does not support arbitrary markdown. And even if it did indenting by four spaces would yield pre-formatting not an ordered list.

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